Curtain-fixture



(No Model,)

W. J. HEWITT.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

No. 551,862. Patentgd' 1390.24, 1895.

WITNESSES:

INVENTUR Way/$242721 ATTORNEY AN DREW BERN-MM FHUTO-LITNQWASHINGTON D15 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM J. HEIVITT, OF COYTESVILLE, NEIV JERSEY.

CURTAIN-FIXTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 551,862, dated'December 24, 1895. Application filed August 31, 1895. Serial No. 561,068. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: side 0, which bars, when juxtaposed and Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. HEWITT, joined together by end pieces or plates D, a citizen of the United States, residing at provide a bar or pole having an intermediate Ooytesville, in the county of Bergen and State or longitudinal segmental groove E opening 5 of New Jersey, have invented certain new and out of the top of the bar or pole thus formed, useful Improvements in Curtain-Fixtures, of the sections B B being separated transversely which the following is a specification. to form a longitudinal slot F. The bottom of This invention relates to curtain-fixtures the groove E is circular in cross-section, and and to rollers for window and other shades the longitudinal slot F communicates with 10 used for similar purposes, and the object the longitudinal groove E throughout its thereof is to provide an improved support or length. fixture for curtains, portieres or similar arti- The means for connecting a curtain or other cles, which is simple in construction and oparticle with my improved pole or support may eration, and which is adapted to support a consist of the spring-clamps G, of the usual I 5 curtain or similar article in any desired posior any preferred form of construction, protion and allowing a part of the fixture to be vided with a link H, which extends upwardly lowered and raised in order to attach or rethrough the slot F, and is secured at its upmove the curtain or similar article, and also per end to or otherwise connected with a semito provide means for adjusting the curtain, spherical or segmentally-formed block I, the 20 &c., longitudinally of its support, and with convex surface of which is directed downthis and other objects in view the invention ward, and as will be understood, these links consists in the construction, combination, and are free to move back and forth in the slot F, arrangement of parts hereinafter described. in which operation the semispherical blocks The invention is fully disclosed in the fol- I are supported and move upon the curved 25 lowing specification, of which the accompabottom surface of the longitudinal groove E. nying drawings form a part, in which It will be noticed that the groove E is wider Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of my at its open top than the diameter of the blocks improved curtain-support, showing a curtain I, which provides means for inserting and reconnected therewith. Fig. 2 is a rear view movingtheblocks,(the clamps Gbeingreadily 30 thereof with a part removed to disclose intedetachable from the links, which latter can be rior construction. Fig. 3 shows an enlarged drawn through the slot F,) or the removal of cross-section on the line 3 3, Fig. 4. Fig. 4 anyone ofthemwithout disturbingthe others, is a transverse sectional elevation on the and without removing the end pieces D. This same scale as Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a diagram- I consider a great improvement of the prior 3 5 matic view illustrating the curtain pole or constructions, as far aslknow of them, as they bar lowered for manipulation. involved the insertion of each of the blocks, My invention consists, first, in the conone after the other, through the end of the struction of the curtain-pole, and, second, in groove, and the removal of a number to get the combination therewith and with a suitat the central ones. It will thus be seen that 40 able cornice, of means to raise and lower the the curtain or other article may be drawn pole for attaching, detaching, or otherwise or gathered to one side or extended the full manipulating the curtain. length of the pole, and I thus accomplish the I will first describe the construction of the object of my invention by means of a device curtain-pole. simple in construction and operation and one 45 In the practice of my invention I employ a which is comparatively inexpensive. If it is bar or pole A of the desired shape and madesired to use this part of my invention disterial, preferably of wood, and which is of connected from a molding or housing and the the length of any curtain pole or support remeans hereinafter described for raisingand I00 quired. It is constructed of two bars, or lowering the pole, I can also secure to or con- 50 preferably pieces of wood B B, each having a nect with the front side of the pole an ornalongitudinal and segmental recess Oformed mented piece of molding, which may be of on the upper and inner side, and a vertical any desired form or configuration in cross-section and which would preferably project slightly below the sections B B.

I, however, prefer to use the improvements in the pole in connection with the following, which comprises the second portion of my invention.

I provide a suitable combined housing and cornice J, consisting of the front molding K, the top board L, end boards M, and rear board N, which forms an inverted trough or housing 0, in which the curtain-pole A is lodged when the curtains are in place, and this I secure to the wall, &c., P, as indicated in Fig. 45. Attached to the under side of the top boardL are two pulleys Q Q, in hangers R, and secured to the pieces B and crossing the groove E are cross-bars or pins S S S S, which brace the bars B B, together mediately of their ends, and from the cross-bars or pins S S lead cords T T which pass respectively over the pulleys Q Q, both cords passing through a hole U in the end boards M, and downward convenient to the operator. It is clear that with this arrangement, by pulling on the cords the pole A can be raised, and by releasing them it can be lowered, the curtain which is suspended from the pole by the clamps G being simultaneously raised or lowered, so that it can be manipulated as desired, and when raised the pole and fixtures are entirely out of sight, thus enabling me to use rougher material in its construction than if it were to be exposed.

Instead of usingthe combined housing and cornice I can secure the means for raising and lowering the pole directly to the windowframe or to a cornice of the usual or desired construction without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A curtain pole or support comprising the two bars B, B, each having a longitudinal quadrantal and segmental recess formed in one of its upper sides and a vertical side leading to the edge of said recess, the said bars being juxtaposed with their vertical sides opposed to form a longitudinal slot, the edges of the said recesses being aligned to form a complete longitudinal groove opening out of the top of the bar, combined with detachable plates for securing the ends of the bars together, segmental blocks supported in said groove and links depending from said blocks through said slot, the groove opening in the bar being wider than said blocks, substantially as described.

2. A curtain pole or support consisting of two bars B, B, each provided with a longitudinal recess 0, which is a segment of a circle, and a vertical side 0, which bars, when juxtaposed, form a central longitudinal and segmental groove E, and a longitudinal slot F in the bottom which communicates with the groove, the groove opening out of the top of the bars, combined with the segmental blocks I which are free to move in said groove, links secured to the blocks and extending downwardly through said longitudinal slot, and cross bars securing the bars B, B, together between the ends of said latter bars, substantially as described.

3. A curtain support comprising a pole provided with means for detachably securing a curtain or the like thereto, a cornice or housing adapted to contain the pole and upper edge of the curtain, &c., and means secured within the housing for raising and lowering the pole into or from said housing, substantially as described.

4. 111 a curtain support, the combination of the ,pole embodying the parts B, B, cross bars S, S, extending between the bars'B, B, and means for detachably securing a curtain or the like thereto, a cornice having the front board K, top board L, and side boards M, M, pulleys Q, Q, secured to the top board with in the cornice, and cords T, T, secured at one end to the cross bars S, S, passing over the pulleys and through an aperture U in one of the side boards, the pole and fixtures being adapted to be entirely contained Within the cornice, substantially as described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 30th day of August, 1895.

- WILLIAM J. HEWVITT. WVitnesses J OSEPH L. LEVY, B. S. WISE. 

